{"id":2277648,"date":"2026-02-11T18:04:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T18:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2277648"},"modified":"2026-02-11T18:04:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T18:04:35","slug":"artists-are-empathy-dealers-actor-lena-waithe-on-why-art-terrifies-those-in-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/artists-are-empathy-dealers-actor-lena-waithe-on-why-art-terrifies-those-in-power\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Artists are empathy dealers\u2019: Actor Lena Waithe on why art terrifies those in power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dCT1tcS6Qic?autoplay=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>We&#8217;re one week into Black History Month, and the Trump administration is not hiding its brazen attempts to rewrite that history. But actor, producer, and Emmy Award\u2013winning writer Lena Waithe is working to very much keep Black history alive. Waithe is making her playwriting and theatrical acting debut in the new play, &#8220;Trinity,&#8221; which premieres Thursday at Baltimore Center Stage and runs through March 8th.<\/p>\n<p>MS NOW: My Source for News, Opinion, and the World.<br \/>\nSame mission. New name.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb Subscribe to MS NOW: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@msnow<\/p>\n<p>MS NOW is the go-to destination for domestic and international breaking news, and best-in-class opinion journalism. For more context and news coverage of the most important stories of our day click here: https:\/\/www.ms.now\/<\/p>\n<p>#LenaWaithe #Politics<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dCT1tcS6Qic\">Video Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re one week into Black History Month, and the Trump administration is not hiding its brazen attempts to rewrite that history. But actor, producer, and Emmy Award\u2013winning writer Lena Waithe is working to very much keep Black history alive. Waithe is making her playwriting and theatrical acting debut in the new play, &#8220;Trinity,&#8221; which premieres [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2277648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770833074_maxresdefault.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2277648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2277650,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277648\/revisions\/2277650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2277648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2277648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2277648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}